Note 103 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

In Hindustan (i.e., Upper India) there is a bird called Papīhā,103 of a sweet voice, which in the rainy season utters soul-piercing (jān-sūz, lit. soul-burning) laments. As the koyal lays its egg in the nest of the crow, and the latter brings up its young, so I have seen in Kashmir that the papīhā lays its egg in the nest of the g͟haug͟hāʾī104 (ring-dove?) and the g͟haug͟hāʾī brings up its young.